Perhaps the life of George Michael, there’s actually a Before and After split before and after this 7. April 1998, as a under cover police officer put him in a public urinal in the Will Rogers Memorial Park, Beverly Hills, the event drew and George Michael accused of “lewd behavior in Public”.
Before that, George Michael to be one of the most famous pop stars in the world, first as the creative, the singing half of the Duo Wham!, thereafter, as a solo artist, whose Album “Faith” incredible piece of sold numbers. But George Michael was also companions an unfortunate man, of his mother nachtrauerte and a life of which the Public should know.
After the incident in Beverly Hills George Michael recorded the Song “Outside”, extolling the joys of Sex in Public and danced in the music video, stick swinging in the COP costume. Perhaps for the first Time in his career, George Michael made fun of himself; about his homosexuality, he spoke on it, was released. But his health Concerns made. On the first day of Christmas, he is now at his home in Goring-on-Thames died; Georgios Kyriakos Panagiotou, as he was known with the native name, was only 53 years old.
The son of a Greek Cypriot father and an English mother who worked in Restaurants, grew up in a suburb on the Northern outskirts of London, where he learned in school Andrew Ridgeley: “Because George is 13 and chubby Greek Boy with curly hair and glasses and next to him, the class pretty boy was sitting was,” says Simon Napier-Bell, Michael and Ridgeley would later manage, as the Duo Wham! was to become: with a slim, George Michael with straight hair and contact lenses.
Manager Simon Napier-Bell, the last of the great Tradition of homosexual British Popproduzenten from the sixties (as he worked with the Yardbirds and Marc Bolan), saw to his own statement, in Wham! something that no one else saw: “This Hollywood thing with the two Buddies, the two Cowboys. In the Film, the one, the other goes into the Puff, but in the end, you are riding but always together in love. It is never sexual, but definitely Homo erotic and made in the rock music never really.”
In the Video: George Michael at the concert in the state Opera, Prague 2011
Andrew Ridgeley with the Bedroom eyes and George Michael with the angular chin were welcomed in 1982 in the British Pop euphoric: Motown-influenced Songs from the London suburb of guys in leather jackets. “I’m a soul boy, not a dole boy,” sang George Michael. Songs like “Club Tropicana” paid homage to the hedonism and individualism of the Thatcher years (although Wham! also at a benefit concert for the strike of mine workers occurred).
in 1984, superseded by Wham! definitive Culture Club and Duran Duran in the hierarchy of ambitious English Popper, from their second Album “Make It Big” came three number-one Hits (“Wake Me Up before You Go-Go”, “Freedom”, “Careless Whisper”). And “Last Christmas” would have been the fourth, if not the Africa charity Single “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” would have come to the Wham! also, of course, were involved.
In England they were “the most popular thing to the Royal family”; with brown skin, blond highlights and white teeth, George had become Michael at the extremely recognizable face. And Manager Napier-Bell had might be an idea, as the Duo is known all over the world: in 1985, He organized performances in China, where Wham! as the first Western pop group ever played.
The Popkritik resented Wham! meanwhile, “no longer wanted to be, as they would be doing anyway seemed to be: Two nice middle-class boys who are busy a fortune,” the “Smash Hits”author Dave Rimmer. But George Michael himself, who sang at the Duo, the main voice and practically wrote all the Songs, while Andrew Ridgeley was kind and looked good, thinking if Wham! everything could be.
“Careless Whisper”, the saxophone ballad whose Video Director, “mainly known for the fact that Georges hairstyle is similar to Princess Diana”, was nominally already been a solo single, the minimalist “A Different Corner” was released under the name George Michael. 1986 Wham broke up! with a concert at Wembley stadium. To Ridgeley, it was silent.
George Michael, however, was going on a Mission, the Mission is taken seriously: “I need to establish in the world. This is my unstoppable ambition. I have to create, I want to go down in history,” he said of the journalist Sylvia Patterson, stated: “George Michael, 24, was immediately obvious, was the Definition of aloof.”
But he reached what he had made: His first solo album “Faith” appealed to white and black audiences in the United States; George Michael was the first white artist who took it to number one on the R&B album charts. A total of over 20 million copies have been sold. And in the Video for the title song “Faith”, he managed again, a strong Image with a biker jacket, jeans and acoustic guitar.
Less and even he was addicted by this success: It is one of the worst album followed by the title of the pop history: “Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1″. He had a huge hit in a duet with his idol, Elton John (“Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me”). He proved to be pretty much the only suitable Freddie-Mercury-replacement 1992 at the Tribute concert with Queen. For the “Freedom ’90″Video by David Fincher, he committed the five most super Supermodels of the era: Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington, Linda Evangelista, Tatjana Patitz and Naomi Campbell. George Michael was not in the picture: He came to this time in his music videos, processed against his record company.
turning point in Beverly Hills
On the very beautiful Album “Older”, sang George Michael in 1996 with “Jesus To A Child” is a ballad, which he later, as a tribute to his Partner Anselmo Faleppa interpreted, died of a complication from his Aids three years earlier. But as long as his mother was alive, he wanted to spare her Coming out. In 1997 she died. In later Interviews he spoke of being after her death depressed. “I couldn’t write, my life seemed worthless.”
But then came in the public restroom of Beverly Hills the event, the turning-point in the strange career of the expiration of George Michael did: and it was not Until George Michael-too early in the maturity of middle age, then he started to act like an erratic Teenager, too happy to smoke weed and is always experimenting with political activism: Tony Blair, he shows in 2002, when George W. Bush’s lap in the Video “Shoot the Dog”
in 2009, he told the “Guardian” that he had now restricted his use of cannabis – only seven or eight Joints a day, instead of, as previously, 25. In the following year, Michael was driving under heavy influence of drugs, with the Range Rover into the window of the Photo shop, just one of several spectacular traffic accidents, in which Michael was involved. Even greater Concerns about George Michael’s health, as he had to cancel his “Symphonica”Tour in November 2011, and in a Vienna hospital with an acute pneumonia was admitted. As he appeared a few weeks later, again for the first time publicly, he thanked the Viennese Doctors tears choked, weak voice, – his life was in acute danger.
Musically, George Michael stepped thereafter, only occasional in appearance, but the Charts he was still every year: “Last Christmas”, that wonderful Christmas song by Wham!, perhaps that’s why so great, because he is actually a love song that just happened to be in Christmas plays.
Probably it is a coincidence that George Michael is, of all things, died on Christmas day of the year 2016. But the message feels even a little tragic, as she’s doing it anyway, if a man for 53 years, dies.
click here to read an Interview with George Michael from the year 2006.
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